The copy process is still going on since yesterday and reports 10 more hour to go.
I have had to skip 5 files and have received 39 of 120 files and properties of the folder shows 21GB so far. I am surprised by the size increase as well as the option to change the date to the future. 2010/12/31 Robert Raschke <[email protected]> > 2010/12/30 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > > > I am a bit surprised about a dvd disk I am copying to a usb disk, > > Usually the dvds are 4GB or less. > > This dvd lists as 7GB in properties and listing it there are a lot of 1GB > > files and all in all 120 files compared to less than 20 on the other dvds > > in > > the series I am copying. > > What is surprising is that the copy operation tells me the files are more > > than 65GB and is taking forever to copy. > > I have to have a dvd player open on the pc open on the film because > > otherwise the copy operation reports some of the files empty or > impossible > > to copy. > > I am having doubts about having this 65GB monster folder on my hard disk > > for > > one dvd but I am going to let the copy operation finish and see if I can > > compress the files in the folder. > > I have never witnessed this before. > > Is this something the dvd makers do to deter us from copying. > > There are all kinds of tricks needed to copy some dvds. > > It is interesting that the file dates are reported as created 30.12.2010 > > during copy but after the copy the date is reported as 7.2.2036 > > > > > Quite a few DVDs are double layer these days, that's why it's ~7GB. Maybe > your OS is getting confused by that a bit? Or, as you say, the manufacturer > is using some "undocumented" bit of the DVD standard to make copying > harder. > > Robby > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
